'Feminist' Label Is Meaningless, and Abortion Is Not Tragic

What is tragic in the writer's example is that an unmarried mother of 4 could not keep her legs shut...

To start, I feel shasted by this article. I read it to view this authors idea on abortion, it seems all I got was a small paragraph, a common paragdim when I read most mainstream pro-choice blurbs.
Abortion in itself is tragic, there is absolutely no two-ways about it. A woman who has a medically needed abortion, could've lost a wanted and loved child, if that's not tragic; I don't know what it. In your unrealistic and stretched scenario unlikely to happen in the real world, I agree with the comments that the woman should really understand what causes babies and what doesn't. I would question the ability of a single parent of 4 children who was neither financially or emotionally stable to raise a 5th child. It seems to me the differences between 4 and 5 are just splitting hairs. Say she has an abortion, the world is seeminly unchanged. A child did not come into the world. One life was altered, no one cared about that soul, about that life force that every living creature has. Say she gives birth and give her child to a childless couple, the world is enriched! The world shines a little brighter with a happy and well taken care of child to add their mark into humanity. So should we really be praising the abortion gods for creating such a "wonderful" medical procedure and making it available to us? Either scenario, in the case of abortion a woman has lost a child to death, something I've been through a multitude of time. When that act has become completely stoic and pointless to humanity as a whole is a time when I no longer want to be part of it.
To be technical, the woman giving her child away for adoption is also her losing the child, but she's losing them to a better life she can't provide; which is nothing short of a miracle.
A human life was lost, there's no disputing that. There are LAWS against killing a fetus because it is a valued member of society. For those who inevitably will react to the first question of this paragraph, riddle me this; What is a woman pregnant with? Because if you answer she's pregnant with an undead, non-human alien of a non-being, a clump of useless cells (which is all any human is), or an unthinking shred of stem cells (a scientific study reported on July 16th, 2009 proved that a fetus has a memory and can retrieve that information that happened a month before); I simply won't believe you.

"What is much more tragic from my perspective is the situation of a pregnant, unmarried, mother of four who, for lack of access to abortion, brings yet a fifth child into the world."

From MY perspective is the fact that this hypothetical woman hasn't figured out what the PROBLEM is here. She is a breeding machine. What's TRAGIC is that she doesn't practice BIRTH CONTROL. Lacking that, perhaps she should practice CELIBACY. Besides, if she didn't abort the previous 4 kids, why would she want to abort the 5th? Secondly, what you are saying is that any woman who is pro-life CANNOT be a feminist. The litmus test for feminism in your world is abortion. Abortion defines a feminist. Wow. That's so intellectually dishonest that I pity you. By the way. If you actually KNEW HOW TO RIDE A HORSE, you'd know that it isn't logical for men to ride side saddle. The reason women rode side saddle is that in the old days, when the horse was a means of transportation, women wore dresses. They couldn't straddle the horse with the dress on, so rather than wear pants, which women didn't do, they sat side saddle, rather than have the dress hiked up to their waist, exposing themselves.

Without any religious convictions I would agree abortion is murder. However if I believed in a loving Jesus I would have to assume the unborn victims go straight to paradise for eternity. Now isn't that better than having to struggle for survival and end up going to hell to burn in eternal fire etc.??

Oh Bonnie, the last paragraph of your story was reprehensible. It is shameful that a "professional" writer would have the audacity to sum up the tragedy or lack of tragedy that Abortion creates in one short paragraph. Furthermore you surely use an example that is far in the minority of reasons why women in this country have abortions. Life is precious and the creation of life is an act that should be accomplished with great thought. The single Mother with four children & preganant with a fifth that you referance would seem to highlight a tragedy in itself that is not addressed in this country because of political correctness. I wonder if you are aware that for many years impoverished women had additional children out of wedlock because there were generous increases to the Government assistance these women received. President Clinton, to his credit, made this act more difficult with the welfare legislation that he signed into law. I think there is minimal creedance to your point when you address abortion in the world view, but what most pro-life activists concentrate their energy on is the mass abortions that are performed in the United States of America. When a singular spotlight is placed on this country it is near impossible in my opinion to draw the conclusion that lack of access to abortion has create far more tragedy than the abortions that have been performed. A fetus is a life in my opinion, regardless of the world that this child will emerge into. As a living being this child has a chance to grow-up from a troubled existance and become a person that changes the world for the better. When you compare this to the summary termination of a life in the womb your arguement really presents as lacking and that is tragic too.

Agree. I had a theraputic abortion, tragic would have been leaving my husband with a 4 month old baby girl to raise because I would have been dead without the procedure. People who've NOT had abortions don't understand all the thought, trying to see if something else could be done. Much soul-searching goes on in the mind of a woman who's about to terminate a pregnancy for the most part. What's also tragic is all the laws making a woman who's going through the decision process have to view videos of the procedure as if she doesn't already know, that's just to appease people who can't understand people who NEED abortions